Creative Exploration
The creative media resources on this site are continually growing and expanding, just like the tools, technologies, and best practices used by industry professionals, so please feel free to mark this page as your base camp.
HTML Basics: Elements and Syntax
Intro to Web Animation Techniques
What Project Should I Choose?
Design Systems
CSS Basics: Selectors and Syntax
Intro to Web Hosting
The Web Design and Development Process
Intro to Frontend Web Development
Intro to SASS via PrePros
Intro to Node.js and npm
The Box Model
Quality Assurance Checklist
Intro to Front-end Build Tools
Intro to CMS via WordPress
Git-based Workflows using Github
Typography for the Web
Inspiration
Intro to Design Patterns
Web Design Terminology: A Primer
How to Begin Planning
Web Layout Techniques & Strategies
Iterative Design
JS Basics: Functions and Syntax
Draft a Conceptual Plan
Create a Course Web Site
Code a Simple HTML Web Page
Project Brief
Set Summer Goals
Code a Simple Web Page with CSS
Create a Simple Image Grid Portfolio Site
Create a Featured Projects Portfolio Site
Markup Text with HTML
Typography Specimen Tests
Positioning and Layout Tests
Design Your Resume
Usability.gov
Interaction Design Foundation
Nielsen Norman Group
StatCounter Global Stats
U.S. Web Design Standards
The Design of Everyday Things
Graphic Design: A Concise History
Designing with Web Standards
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
HTML & CSS
The Elements of Typographic Style
Animation at Work
Javascript & JQuery
Swiss Graphic Design
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Big list of web design related people:
- Donald Norman – https://jnd.org/
- Jakob Nielson – https://www.nngroup.com/people/jakob-nielsen/
- Jeffrey Zeldman – http://www.zeldman.com/
- Jeremy Keith – https://adactio.com/
- Eric Meyer – https://meyerweb.com/
- Ethan Marcotte – https://ethanmarcotte.com/
- Chris Coyier – https://chriscoyier.net/
- Dave Rupert – https://daverupert.com/
- Jen Simmons – https://jensimmons.com/
- Rachel Andrew – https://rachelandrew.co.uk/
- Andy Bell – https://bell.bz/, https://piccalil.li/
- Adam Argyle – https://nerdy.dev/
- Andy Clarke – https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/
- Val Head – https://valhead.com/
- Sarah Drasner – https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/
- Brad Frost – https://bradfrost.com/, https://designtokenscourse.com/
- Michael Beirut – https://www.pentagram.com/about/michael-bierut
- Jason Pamental – https://ethanmarcotte.com/
- Jason Santa Maria – https://jasonsantamaria.com/
- Zach Leatherman – https://www.zachleat.com/
- Elliot Jay Stocks – https://elliotjaystocks.com/
- Scott Jehl – https://scottjehl.com/
- Remy Sharp – https://remysharp.com/
- Richard Rutter – http://clagnut.com/
- Nicolas Gallagher – http://nicolasgallagher.com/
- Una Kravetts – https://una.im/
- Chen Hui Jing – https://chenhuijing.com/
- Chris Ferdinandi – https://gomakethings.com/, https://vanillajsguides.com/, https://vanillajsacademy.com/, https://vanillajstoolkit.com, https://vanillajspodcast.com/, https://kelpui.com/
List of Online Learning Sites
- Jen Simmon’s HTML Essential Training course on LinkedIn Learning (FREE)
- Wes Bos’s Courses
- JavaScript 30 (FREE)
- What the Flexbox? (FREE)
- CSS Grid (FREE)
- Ethan Marcotte’ Designing Accessible and Responsive Websites course via The Gymnasium (FREE)
- Frontend Masters Courses
List of Online Surveys (for usage stats)
- Design Tools Surveys – 2022
- State of CSS
- State of JS
- Browser Stats – GS Stat Counter
- CSS Tricks
- Can I Use
- CSS Dev Conf
- WordPress.org
- WordPress.com
- Display Posts Shortcode
- Insert Pages
- SiteOrigin Page Builder
- Responsive Screenshots
- Am I Responsive
- Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
- PSD Covers
- 12 Principles of Animation
- Fonts In Use
- Cody House
- Little Snippets
- Animated Flexbox
- Codrops
- Font Pairing Suggestions
- Daily UI Design Challenge
- Mockup Templates
- Premium Pixels
- Graphic Pear
- Adobe Color
- Site Inspire
- MarkSheet
- Jeffrey Zeldman 20 years of Web Design
- The Grid System
- Coursera
- Student Work
Videos & YouTube Channels
- Youtube Channels
- Layout Land by Jen Simmons (coded layout lessons)
- Keyframers (coded web animation)
- Chris Coyier (CSS-Tricks screencasts)
- A List Apart (conference talk videos)
- JamStack Conf (conference talk videos)
- The Futur (design lessons)
- Level Up Tutorials by Scott Telinski (Javascript lessons)
- Wes Bos (Javascript lessons)
Typography Specimen Tests
Typography for the Web
Swiss Graphic Design
Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
Typewolf
Graphic Design: A Concise History
Art of the Menu
The Elements of Typographic Style
I Love Typography
The Web Design and Development Process
Smashing Magazine Podcast
ScrollOut
Intro to Web Animation Techniques
Create a Simple Image Grid Portfolio Site
Designing with Web Standards
Smashing Magazine Email Newsletter
Github
Intro to Web Hosting
Javascript & JQuery
Positioning and Layout Tests
Create a Featured Projects Portfolio Site
Figma
Sass
Shop Talk
JS Basics: Functions and Syntax
The Box Model
HTML Basics: Elements and Syntax
CSS Podcast
Code a Simple HTML Web Page
Code a Simple Web Page with CSS
CSS Basics: Selectors and Syntax
Quality Assurance Checklist
Typography Specimen Tests
Netlify
Smashing Magazine
Create a Course Web Site